IB/qib: Completion queue callback needs to be single threaded
authorRalph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com>
Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:14:15 +0000 (23:14 +0000)
committerRoland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Tue, 6 Jul 2010 21:13:58 +0000 (14:13 -0700)
Workqueues aren't exactly equivalent to tasklets since the callback
function may be called from multiple CPUs before the callback returns.
This causes completion notification callbacks to have MT bugs since
they weren't expecting this behavior. The fix is to use a single
threaded work queue.

Signed-off-by: Ralph Campbell <ralph.campbell@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
drivers/infiniband/hw/qib/qib_init.c

index 1d4db4b19d76e5518a9a4f219a6cd7279bc7902d..7831ff835d15e4c03ea397f48f850617479838b8 100644 (file)
@@ -1059,7 +1059,7 @@ static int __init qlogic_ib_init(void)
                goto bail_dev;
        }
 
-       qib_cq_wq = create_workqueue("qib_cq");
+       qib_cq_wq = create_singlethread_workqueue("qib_cq");
        if (!qib_cq_wq) {
                ret = -ENOMEM;
                goto bail_wq;